genericMud v0.7.1
Pre-release
Pre-release
Soundpack channel triggers work again
- VIPMud soundpacks write a literal square bracket in a pattern as
[[], which is
how they match a channel line like[General Communication] Someone transmits, "Hello all.". genericMud read those brackets as ordinary text, so the pattern
looked for three characters where the line only had one, and never matched. - In the Star Conquest pack that silenced 23 triggers: every communicator channel,
every ship jump, launch, landing, docking and navigate announcement, and the
combat shot-fired and destruction calls. Nothing was broken in the sound path,
which is why the failure was invisible. The lines simply arrived and matched
nothing. - Any VIPMud pack using bracketed patterns gains the same triggers back.
Find text in the output
- Ctrl+F searches the output for a phrase, with a direction setting (up towards
older lines, or down towards newer) and a Match case checkbox. F3 repeats the
search and Shift+F3 repeats it the other way. Both settings stick, so reopening
the dialog and pressing Enter runs the same search again. - Find only works once you have tabbed into the output. It searches the full
scrollback, which is far deeper than the visible output holds, so a match can be
spoken even when it is too old to move the cursor to. - Follow mode has moved from Ctrl+F to Ctrl+Shift+F to make room.
Reading back through the output stays put
- Arriving text no longer throws the cursor to the newest line while you are
reading back through the output. Tabbing into the output from the command box is
now the only thing that takes you to the bottom.
Command history no longer says "blank"
- Pressing Up in the command box spoke the recalled command over the top of the
screen reader's own reading of the field, and the two collided as a spurious
"blank" before every recall. The client now leaves that announcement to the
screen reader.
Bursts of output are no longer cut short
- A room description, a who list or a help page arrives as a single burst, and the
speech governor treated any burst over twenty lines as a flood, replacing the
rest with "N more lines". It now absorbs a couple of screenfuls at a time and
only genuinely sustained spam is summarised.